Sheldon H. Jacobson | |
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| Alma mater | McGill University, Cornell University |
| Awards | INFORMS Fellow, IISE Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, IISE Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, INFORMS Impact Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operations Research, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Virginia Tech, Case Western Reserve University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lee W. Schruben |
Sheldon H. Jacobson is an American educator, noted for contributions that apply operations research to problems related to aviation security, public health, Presidential election forecasting, and NCAA basketball. He holds the position of Founder Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1]